Email logs allow website owners to monitor the emails sent by your WordPress website to the users of your website. It also assists with troubleshooting issues and checks the status of email notifications sent by your website.
Whether you are an owner of a small business with a WordPress website or a WooCommerce online store, WordPress automatically sends certain email notifications to your website users.
On a typical WordPress website, these emails include password reset emails, new user notification, password change notification, comments, and WordPress update notifications.
If you are also running an online store, then email becomes even more important. WooCommerce will send out customer receipts, order details, new order notifications, and user account emails on a regular basis.
Email notifications are very important for your website to ensure that it functions properly and delivers the best user experience. Therefore, you need to ensure that these emails reach the users’ inbox and don’t end up in their junk mailbox.
An email log is important as it:
- Ensure that email notifications are delivered promptly
- Tracks your WordPress contact form plugin emails
- You can see if emails sent by a plugin are working
- Keeps a track of user activity using the email logs
- Tracks user activity if you run a membership website or sell online courses
- Keeps an email log of your WooCommerce orders, receipts, and customer notifications
